Andy Dingley wrote:
On Mar 4, 10:09 pm, Bob Eager wrote:
Since the Raspberry Pi will be with us soon-ish (well, about six weeks I
am told, for mine) does anyone have any interesting ideas about what they
might do with it/them?

Laser cutting machine controller. Interprets G-code and also runs the
user interface to set the machine up.


that is a first class idea...

can it control stepper motors directly tho?

and detect optical limit switches?


Hopefully the rPi's DSI interface will also be available, so that I
can hang cheap S/H laptop screens onto it, so won't need a separate
monitor.


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